Saints and Carr deal released $150M over 4 years $100M fully guaranteed

los226 said
2023 season automatic scapegoat = Pete Carmichael

PHSaint518 said
Another thing, he’s never had a defense close to the one like ours. We’re probably the best all round team of his career.

Feels like DA has got everything he could have wanted so far this offseason, time to prove a lot of us wrong and win that division.

meily said
If we sign Carr and do not have a vertical passing game with guys like Olave and Shaheed at WR coupled with a healthy Thomas and emerging TE in Johnson yeah, I'd say Pete Carmicheal will be the scapegoat for this season because the Defense is set.

rlemieux said
I’m ehh about this. I don’t think he’s a bad QB. he’s obviously not on a Drew Brees level but he’s better that a Dalton/Jameis combo. I still have little to no faith in this coaching staff and it’s ability to win games but we’ll see and I’ll hope I’m wrong. Either way this makes me want to take a mid QB pick (hoping for Hooker in the 3rd) just to develop.

RaginSaint93 said
Can Derek fire Pete Carmichael and bring his own offense coordinator please

guillermo said
If your problem is the coaching staff, getting Carr only will accelerate their departures if they don't bring results.

It is a good move. We can't tank. We have too many players with contracts that can't be moved, so no choice than to think of the present.

midlineveer said
This puts us in the driver seat in the division. Now we can draft a late round QB to develop as cheap backup. I prefer this over drafting for need. Hopefully we can lure a real OC, or a young up and coming OC, or Car can call his own plays. I would even settle for one of those kids that tap dances on Bourbon than Pete.

killerdescore said
Now the play calling have to be way better (and no injuries)
He went from the black & silver to the black & gold ,that's funny

Just like his grandfather . It would be perfect

I had to dig this up to remind everyone where this journey started.

After Carr was signed, many of you had the right idea of where the blame should go if this team failed to produce in 2023. I only went through about 10 pages, but there was a lot of talk about how coaching didn't have anymore excuses now that Carr was going to be QB. That Pete would be the scapegoat and that DA got everything he wanted and had to produce.

It seems that that sentiment has long been forgotten by many and there are now a lot of recent threads about Carr, a couple about DA and none about Pete Carmichael. There were already huge reservations about how this team was being led by the coaches and many were excited about the leadership Carr would bring to the field and locker room. (not quoted)

Did Carr come in and change this team? No. It's the same as it was before he signed, but our frustration with what it was last year and continues to be this year has grown. I think a lot of anger directed at Carr is misplaced as he is the visual culmination of the ongoing coaching failures. We see him on nearly every offensive play and only see a glimpse of Carmichael and DA during games. In hindsight, none of us should have ever believed he was ever good enough to overcome our coaching staff which were already knew was a train wreck.

And I'll tell you. With the same coaching staff, we'll be in the same place next season as we are this season even with a different QB. With the same QB and a different HC/OC combo, we might have an actual chance to improve. Not a guarantee, but a chance.